By Rocky Lopes. “D-19 Reporter” Ginger Ramsey (“unmasked” here as Senator Lenett’s disgruntled ex-employee) is continuing her smear attacks on Senator Mike Lenett (D-19). Her latest mudslinging was to blast…
Negative Campaigning
Hopkins Attacks Berliner Over Purple Line
In her most pointed attack yet, Council District 1 challenger Ilaya Hopkins is slamming incumbent Roger Berliner over the Purple Line. The district includes Bethesda, the western terminus of the…
Unmasked: The District 19 Reporter
For an entire year, an anonymous individual known only as “the District 19 Reporter” has been spreading negative information about Senator Mike Lenett (D-19). The “reporter” has accused Lenett of…
Meow-Meow! Hopkins Bashes Berliner
Council District 1 challenger Ilaya Hopkins had some very interesting things to say about her Tuesday night debate with incumbent Roger Berliner. Read on, dear reader, and beware!In her latest…
Push Poll Targets Saqib Ali (Two Updates)
This past week, a push poll targeting Senate challenger Saqib Ali went out through District 39. That is a sign of rising heat in one of MoCo’s most contentious primaries.One…
Reflections and Advice for 2010
Eric Luedtke’s analysis of the impact of the District 4 campaign on future Montgomery races was truly excellent. So naturally, I’d like to spoil it with my own two cents.First,…
By Eric Luedtke. Innovation in political campaigning has a tendency to trickle down. Changes appear first at the national level, where the money and talent is most concentrated in politics,…
Conventional wisdom holds that negative campaigning hardly ever happens in Montgomery County. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, the county has a long and rancid history of…
There is a great hue and cry going up about negative campaigning in District 4. Ben Kramer sent out the flyer below featuring a protest by Alison Klumpp against Nancy…
Spies Cry Foul on Navarro Mailers
Nancy Navarro’s negative mailers are creating a buzz throughout Montgomery County’s political community. So we consulted the best-connected people we know – our patented spy network – to ask their…